The Lumia 520 runs the newest Windows Phone 8 version, meaning it is decked up with live lock screens and features like Kid's Corner, but being a Nokia handset, it also offers the excellent HERE offline navigation suite for free, as well as Nokia Music and the other Lumia goodies, like the camera apps set.

Lumia 520 runs the newest Windows Phone 8 version

Nokia is spoiling the Lumia 520 owners with the exclusive Angry Birds Roost app that takes you deep into Rovio's universe of game previews, reviews and updates, scoreboards, news, and timewasters like adding angry avians to your camera headshots, and sharing them on the social networks.

Angry Birds Roost app

The display might be of average size, but the phone is not that small, so you will still stretch your thumb quite a bit to reach all letters on the on-screen keyboard while using it with one hand.

Processor and memory

A dual-core 1GHz Snapdragon S4 Plus ensures smooth WP8 performance, and 512 MB of RAM is just the right basic amount for the platform to run any game or app thrown at it, which the 256 MB WP brethren can't say for themselves.

The phone comes with a decent 8 GB amount of internal memory, and there is a microSD slot for further expansion, too, which is an achievement nowadays.

Internet and connectivity

The Lumia 520 is somewhat slow to rerender the page upon zooming in and out, leaving you with blurry text for longer than it should, but scrolling, panning around and page display are spot on. Naturally, you don't have access to content that requires Adobe Flash due to the platform's specifics, so bummer if you need to watch a video on a more obscure site, or play a Flash-based game. Not that you'll be doing long browsing sessions on a 4” display anyway, but the Internet Explorer browser on the Lumia 520 does the job in all major aspects otherwise.

The phone has 21.1 Mbits HSPA+ modem inside, plus Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and A-GPS radio to take advantage of the HERE Drive, Maps and Public Transit suite, which is perhaps the most comprehensive offline navigation package for a mobile you can have.

Who uses offline navigation anymore? Since this is a smartphone, you probably have a data plan, so being online it's not a problem. What's more, if you're offline you don't get realtime info like traffic or road works, and you cannot integrate search and navigation (e.g. search for a street, restaurant, shop etc in google maps and ask the phone to drive you there).
Offline navigation was popular in the 20th century, now we moved forward. Of course, there are some situations where offline navigation is still useful (e.g. if you travel in a country where you might have no GSM coverage or you can't activate a data plan), but in these cases I'd rather get a real navigator, and anyway I consider the offline navigator a weak selling point.

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"and you cannot integrate search and navigation (e.g. search for a street, restaurant, shop etc in google maps and ask the phone to drive you there)"

Nokia offline navigation has all that built in, no need for data plan. If you go to other country (common in Europe) you won't want to have a data plan with roaming that will cost you a fortune, so, very nice to have offline navigation.
The missing apps aren't all that much, the WP is catching up quickly, and all major apps are already integrated. For about $200 I think it's a good choice.

I hate to break this to you, but unless you never leave a major city, there are places where the cell signal is too unreliable for navigation. On Android I use CoPilot, for just that reason. If I have good cell signal, I can use Google maps when necessary for search and traffic.

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only nexus are promised on android to get updated for 18 months.
plz don't come and say to root and update to custom ROM like cm10.
at least in HTC and Sony you void your warranty as soon as you give your imei no. for boot loader unlock code.

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